Manuele Leonelli

Manuele Leonelli is an Associate Professor in the Mathematics Department  at IE University. His research focuses on Bayesian networks and staged tree models for decision-making under uncertainty, with contributions to sensitivity analysis and extreme-value modelling; he is committed to open-source software and reproducible research. He has published in academic journals and international conferences and is Co-Principal Investigator of a Spanish State Research Agency Knowledge Generation Project on semi-parametric models for survival and extremes. He is Editor-in-Chief of ISI Magazine and previously served as Editor of Bernoulli News (2019–2023). He earned a PhD in Statistics at the University of Warwick, completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, served as a Visiting Professor at McGill University, and was a Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Glasgow. His recognitions include the John Copas PhD Thesis Prize and IE University’s SAMBD Best Professor Award (2024). He is a member of the ELLIS Society and author of the forthcoming book Staged Tree Models: With Applications in R (CRC Press).

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

• Associate Professor, Mathematics Department, IE University, Spain, 2025–present
• Assistant Professor, Mathematics Department, IE University, Spain, 2019–2025
• Visiting Professor, McGill University, Canada, 2019
• Lecturer in Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK, 2017–2019
• Postdoctoral Fellow (CAPES), Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2015–2016

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, University of Glasgow (UK), 2018
• PhD in Statistics, University of Warwick (UK), 2015
• MSc in Statistics, University of Warwick (UK), 2011
• BSc in Mathematical Statistics and Data Management, University of Genoa (Italy), 2010

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS (SDGs)

3 — Good Health and Well-Being

9 — Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

13 — Climate Action